May 27, 2016
The gang straps in for an 8 bit barrage of utter shit in the
form of movie adaptations of some of your most treasured video
games; in particular Super Mario Bros. from 1993. We try to
answers some of the most striking questions from the film like can
you really trust the fungus and did this movie slowly kill Bob
Hoskins. So grab your Powerglove (It's sooo bad!) and a
mushroom or two as we dive into the world of horrible video game
movies!
Movie News!
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Super Mario Bros. - Key Points
Video Game Bonafides
John had a very typical upbringing going from the Nintendo NES,
Super Nintendo, Genesis, Sega CD, etc.
Elaine unfortunately lived a very video game deprived childhood and
had to survive on the crumbs of computer games.
Brian went from NES, to Genesis, and then to the monstrosity that
was the 32X- the male enhancement drug for the Sega Genesis.
Also, that fucking dog in Duck Hunt is the devil.
What's with the Dinosaur Obsession?
Super Mario Bros. dips into the trend in the early 90's of everything revolving around dinosaurs which seemed to climax around the release of Jurassic Park in the same year.
This film has absolutely nothing to do with the video game.
Aside from King Koopa stealing The Princess, the plot revolves
around some meteorite that split the dimensions into our world and
a dystopian dino obsessed world called Dinohatten and Koopa's
desire to merge the dimensions using a piece of the
meteorite.......still with me?
This movie was so bad that Nintendo to this day refuses to license
their games for movie adaptations.
Bob Hoskins did not know that Mario was a video game character
and he was injured multiple times on set.
He was electrocuted, broke a finger, and nearly drowned.
Trust the fungus--the real hero of the movie is a liquid latex looking fungus played by Lance Hendriksen of Pumpkinhead fame
Video game movies are extremely difficult to adapt to films.
The early games plots were simplistic button mashers which
forced studios to create plots that ultimately had very little to
do with the games themselves.
Games nowadays have an easier time transitioning to film since the
games themselves are now as fleshed out as most movies with complex
characters and elaborate plots. Think of games like The Last
of Us, LA Noir, and Uncharted.
Notable Movies Referenced
NEXT WEEK:
We add one of the most offensive films on the planet to The
Pantheon of Utter Shit- TipToes
Check out the trailer below!!
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